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Archive | August, 2007
Monbiot Says Global Revolutionary Change Required
From George Monbiot’s speech at the Camp for Climate Change in London Aug. 18. George Monbiot is the author of the climate change bestseller Heat, and a columnist for the U.K. Guardian. From UK Indymedia I’m going to start with some bad news, and the bad news is this. Two degrees is no longer the target. […]
Savage Capitalism -the Ecosocialist Alternative (Summary)
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Indigenous People in West Papua Fight Biofuel Expansion
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Global Warming Threatens the Nile Delta
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Ecuador Seeks to Leave Amazon Oil Underground
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Police Provocateurs Exposed at Quebec Demonstration (Updated)
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What Will APEC Do About Climate Change? Nothing.
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Joel Kovel: The first two steps to ecosocialism
[Quotes and Insights #2] “However uncertain the end point, the first two steps on the path are clearly laid out, and are within the reach of every conscientious person. These are that people ruthlessly criticize the capitalist system ‘from to to botton’, and that they include in this a consistent attack on the widespread idea […]
Canada: Oilsands Emissions Double In 15 Years
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Global Warming Makes the Case for Socialism
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Karl Marx: Our duty to the earth and the future
[Quotes and Insights #1] A previous post quotes top NASA climate scientist James Hansen on the importance of viewing our relationship to the earth as a “usufruct” — a right to use, but also a responsibility to preserve for future generations. If Hansen were a Marxist, he might have cited this quote from Karl Marx, […]
Usufruct
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Stop the Presses! NASA Error Equals One-Thousandth of a Degree
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International Ecosocialist Meeting: Update #2
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'The Future Has to Be Red-Green' An Interview With Derek Wall
Derek Wall is a writer, an economist, and currently the Principal Male Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the author of several books including Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and Comparative Social Movements and Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements. Republished […]
FAO: Climate Change Likely to Increase Risk of Hunger
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Some Questions About Ecosocialism
This article was submitted this as a comment on Joel Kovel’s article Why Ecosocialism Today? I am publishing it as a separate article because it raises important questions that ecosocialists need to consider carefully. by Jeff White Re: Joel Kovel’s “Why Ecosocialism Today?” The title of this article is too modest: Kovel asks not only […]
Australian Anti-Bush Protests to Target War and Climate Change
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Failing to Make the Connections
by William Bowles From Investigating New Imperialism, August 7, 2007 I’m torn, really torn between trying to keep up with the deceptions the corporate press keep feeding us and wanting to ignore the entire sorry mess completely, but well you know how it is, almost without exception, everyday there’s a story that grabs my attention because […]